arXiv:2608.30690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual SLAM is commonly evaluated on clean trajectories, although deployment failures are often caused by adverse weather, illumination, blur, and sens...
By Abhay Skaria Thomas, Shashank Agnihotri, Margret Keuper
arXiv:2609.14634v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM (3DGS-SLAM) has gained significant momentum in simultaneous localization and 3DGS scene reconstruction. In real-wo...
By Kumaran Karthik, Pramat Shastri Jois, Suresh Sundaram
SLAM Adversarial Lab (SAL) is a modular framework designed to evaluate visual SLAM systems under adverse conditions such as fog, rain, camera, and video transport perturbations. It transforms existing datasets into adversarial versions by applying perturbations with severity levels expressed in real‑world units (e.g., meters for fog visibility). SAL’s extensible architecture separates datasets, perturbations, and SLAM algorithms via common interfaces, allowing users to add new components without rewriting integration code, and includes a search procedure to identify the severity at which a SLAM system fails.
By Mohamed Hefny, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko
arXiv:2508.13488v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Loop closure detection is important for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which associates current observations with historical k...
By Jingwen Yu, Jiayi Yang, Jianhao Jiao, Anjun Hu, Zhonghang Liu, Jiankun Wang, Ping Tan, Hong Zhang
arXiv:2606. 29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust robot autonomy depends on scene representations that remain stable enough to support localization, navigation, and downstream decision making in dynamic environments.
By Qixin Xiao
arXiv:2609.15795v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Streaming geometric foundation models are emerging as a compelling alternative to SLAM systems. Yet this streaming nature introduces a fundamental issu...
By Mingkai Liu, Hao Zhao, Xingxing Zuo
Deep-learning features excel in visual matching, yet their practical value in tightly coupled visual-inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) remains insufficiently characterized. We present DL-VINS-Factory, a unified framework that integrates learned feature extractors (ALIKED, RaCo, SuperPoint, XFeat) with either Lucas--Kanade (LK) optical-flow tracking or LightGlue (LG) descriptor matching.
arXiv:2603. 25937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations.
By Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek, Giovanni Beltrame
End-to-end multimodal driving has progressed rapidly by fusing camera and LiDAR streams. Existing pipelines remain fragile under asymmetric sensor degradation, where either an entire modality or only...
arXiv:2608.24544v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many feature-based visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems rely on sparse feature tracking, whose accuracy and robustness directly affect state estimati...
By Renbiao Jin, Danping Zou, Wenxian Yu
arXiv:2607. 11686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-cost unmanned ground vehicles are often used in indoor places like warehouses, inspection corridors, and farm rows, where painted floor lines guide the robot.
By Jakob Solberg Berntzen, Safia Fatima, Leon Moonen
arXiv:2607. 23537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving under adverse weather remains a critical challenge, yet existing vision-language benchmarks mainly evaluate under standard conditions, synthetic corruptions, or single modality.
By Qiao Yan, Yihan Wang, Zhenghao Xing, Jiaqi Xu, Pheng-Ann Heng